About the Authors

Henrik B. Hansen

Contributed equally to this work with: Henrik B. Hansen, Peter B. Damgaard

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Peter B. Damgaard

Contributed equally to this work with: Henrik B. Hansen, Peter B. Damgaard

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Ashot Margaryan

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Jesper Stenderup

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Niels Lynnerup

Affiliation Unit of Forensic Anthropology, Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Eske Willerslev

Affiliations Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Morten E. Allentoft

morten.allentoft@gmail.com

Affiliation Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MEA NL. Formal analysis: HBH PBD MEA AM. Funding acquisition: MEA EW. Investigation: HBH PBD JS AM. Resources: NL EW. Supervision: MEA. Writing – original draft: MEA HBH PBD.